Brian Mwenda Njagi, who this week has shocked the country after he was busted to be a fake lawyer who has been practicing law illegally. According to Law Society of Kenya, Brian has no law degree and has never stepped foot in Law School of Kenya.
The imposter was arrested by the Rapid Action Team in Nairobi on Thursday. The Society has come out to explain how Njagi infiltrated the system to register himself as a lawyer.
According to LSK, Mwenda stole an identity of a real lawyer that has a name similar to his. The real lawyer, Brian Mwenda Ntwiga reached out to the secretariat after having difficulties logging in.
Upon countercheck by the ICT department, they noticed a different email address thus the reason as to why he couldn’t log in to the portal.
LSK released the following statement:
“On the 5th Day of August, 2022, Brian Mwenda Ntwiga was admitted to the Bar. His correct email address was captured. An Account opened for him in the Advocates portal. We reached out to Advocate Brian Mwenda Ntwiga who confirmed that he had not applied for a practicing certificate since his admission. His reason being that he had been working at the Office of the Attorney General and did not require a Practising Certificate. It was only until sometime in September 2023 when he attempted to log into the system and activate his profile to apply for his Practising Certificate. That’s when he realized he could not access his LSK Portal.”
Immediately, the LSK conducted an internal investigation to determine how an email address could be changed.
That’s how they noticed that Brian Mwenda Njagi took the identity of one Brian Mwenda Ntwiga. He did this by uploading his profile picture and update his work details. The society however has said that the system has not been compromised and the members’ information is safe.